Discounts with Physis Training for all full STAA Members

Hi Folks

As part of an expanding range of membership benefits, the Scottish Transactional Analysis Association (STAA) are pleased to announce that all full STAA Members are now entitled to a 10% discount on all training / CPD events run by Physis Training in Edinburgh.

All STAA Members will shortly receive an email containing a promotional code, which can be used when booking training places via Physis Training's dedicated Eventbrite page.

Simply enter the code in the appropriate box in the booking form and the discount will be automatically deducted from your invoice.

Watch this space for more STAA membership benefits in due course!

David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

Scottish TA Conference 2012 - tickets on sale

Hi Folks Please visit the STAA Conferences and the STAA Documents pages for information on our next Conference, which is scheduled for Saturday 6th October- once again, at Pollock Halls of Residence in Edinburgh.

You can download all the documentation you need from the Documents page, including Workshop Proposal and Booking Forms.

Meanwhile, please visit the STAA Online Shop to purchase tickets electronically via Paypal.

Hope to see you there!

David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

FREE Summer Event for full STAA Members and Physis/CPTI trainees - RSVP REQUIRED

All full STAA members, plus past and present TA trainees with CPTI/Physis Training are warmly invited to attend a Summer Party at The Meadows Bar (formerly the Borough Hotel), 72-80 Causewayside, Edinburgh at 5.30pm on Sunday 15th July.

Your FREE entry includes two alcoholic / soft drinks and a tasty finger buffet, so please come along and enjoy the company of your colleagues and peers over a drink, or two!

Current members of the STAA Committee will be present to discuss the organisation's work, together with our forthcoming Scottish TA Conference, plus there will be a presentation of certificates to all the trainees who recently achieved the COSCA-validated Diploma in TA Counselling.

** PLEASE E-MAIL shop@scottishta.org.uk IN ORDER TO BOOK YOUR PLACE **

Further details will appear on the Physis Training Facebook page in due course, so why not pay a visit and 'Like' them to stay informed of all their latest news.

We look forward to seeing you there!

David Harford http://www.scottishta.org.uk/ www.harfordtherapy.com

Scottish Transactional Analysis Conference 2012 - Tickets Now Available

Hi Folks. Please visit the STAA Conferences and the STAA Documents pages for information on our next Conference, which is scheduled for Saturday 6th October- once again, at Pollock Halls of Residence in Edinburgh. You can download all the documentation you need from the Documents page, including Workshop Proposal and Booking Forms. Meanwhile, please visit the STAA Online Shop to purchase tickets electronically via Paypal. Hope to see you there! David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

Being Alone Versus Being Lonely in the Mobile age

A moving and thought-provoking article, which, claiming my right to total hypocrisy, I am posting on a social networking site. I guess this phenomenon is one of the reasons that counselling and psychotherapy are becoming increasingly important these days...An uninterrupted hour of intimate embodied dialogue, etc. The Flight from Conversation- New York Times David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

The age of materialism and the need for enlightenment

Further to my last post about the work of Glasgow's Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing, there's a whole host of interesting material on their website relating to our conception of self, others and wider society as a whole. Well worth a browse.... Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing - on Materialism David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

Thought-provoking article on consumerism makes for uneasy reading

The consistently on-the-button Centre for Confidence and Well-Being point out some painful home truths. I agree with much of this, except the slight inference that middle class people know how to prioritise their spending, whereas the working classes do not. The middle classes are the definers of 'taste' as a concept, so they simply dress up their materialism as something morally superior, but the underlying consumerist impulses are the same.

David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com